My hard drive is partitioned into three partitions - one being 700MB which I use as a "disk image" to make bootable Mac repair CDs. If you setup your icons in OS 9.x and then bootup into X (using another partition) the icons can be set to be DIFFERENT than when you're booted into OS 9.x!

This is quite cool because I now have two distinct looks. When I boot from the CD it looks one way, and when I am in OS X it looks completely different - including Finder window colors!

I think the critique was that you didn't really say "how" to take advantage of your tip. You may have assumed that everyone knows how to manipulate icons to achieve the effect you described.

The comment from phlbbrtn may have been a little harsh, but don't lose his valid message in the medium. I just don't think that he was criticizing you for submitting a tip and sharing that info, just the completeness of the info shared.